Diagnosing the sensitivity of local land-atmosphere coupling via the soil moisture-boundary layer interaction

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 766-786

  Santanello Jr , Joseph A ^a   Peters Lidard, Christa D ^a   Kumar, Sujay V ^a,b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmosphere land interaction; Hydrometeorology; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-BIOSPHERE INTERACTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; DATA ASSIMILATION; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; LAND INFORMATION SYSTEM; LAND SURFACE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MIXING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL MOISTURE; THERMODYNAMICS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

GREAT PLAINS;

EID: 80051995798     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-10-05014.1     Document Type: Article

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